Word: roughness
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...North Dakota] is a very talented team that has got off to a bit of a rough start and hasn’t had a great deal of luck scoring goals,” Donato said. “They were hungry tonight, and I think they executed...
...villainous lackey Fletcher (David Wenham) have consolidated a monopoly on the Australian beef industry just in time to win exclusive rights to feed Australian troops.Luckily for Lady Ashley, she’s got Wolverine—uh, I mean Hugh Jackman—on her side. He plays a rough-and-tumble Australian cattle drover who works for no man but himself and shirks responsibility. Jackman’s drover is such a one-dimensional character that his name is simply “Drover.” Along with a young, half-Aboriginal, half-white boy named Nullah (Brandon...
...where an insouciant-in-spite-of-it Kanye robo-raps over melted-butter synths and a soulful, multi-tracked hook. The loss that pervades “808s” also stems from the recent death of Kanye’s mother (guy’s had a rough year). On “Welcome to Heartbreak,” he reevaluates. “My friend show me pictures of his kids,” he laments, “And all I can show him was pictures of my cribs.” His mother?...
...Angela Merkel did in August. Beijing also has little to say about E.U. officials who will speak with the Dalai Lama during his tour of Europe this month - including officials from the Czech Republic, which assumes the E.U.'s rotating presidency from France in January. So why the exceptionally rough treatment for Sarkozy and France, which China is now threatening with possible diplomatic and trade retaliation...
...Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s address the other day. Singh is an old, mild-mannered academic—a policy wonk in the sort of rough political climate that would normally eat people like him for breakfast. His speech after the attacks was criticized for appearing meek and helpless, and his critics are probably right. What I see though, is a man wary of the same vicious cycle of Pakistan-baiting, worsening cross-border relations, and “tough security measures” that generate the sort of hatred that breeds even more terrorists. He knows...